Reichstag deputies of the Kingdom of Saxony
The Reichstag deputies of the Kingdom of Saxony were elected by male suffrage over the age of 25 across the Kingdom of Saxony from 1867 until the abolition of the Kingdom in 1918.
Following the North German Confederation Treaty the Kingdom of Saxony entered the North German Confederation in 1866.[1] As a consequence, the Kingdom returned Deputies to the Reichstag. After the founding of the German Empire on 18 January 1871, the deputies were returned to the Reichstag of the German Empire.[2] Following this Saxony participated in Reichstag elections from February 1867. Zittau returned a series of Reichstag Deputies until 1919 when the existing constituencies were scrapped.
Reichstag of the North German Federation
[edit]| Political parties in the 1867 elections North German Federation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political orientation | Party | Seats Total Feb 1867 |
Seats Saxony Feb 1867 |
Seats Total Aug 1867 |
Seats Saxony Aug 1867 | ||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (Prussia) (Konservative Partei) | (KP) | 59 | - | 66 | - | |
| Free Conservative Party (Freikonservative Vereinigung) | (FKV) | 39 | 3 | 34 | 3 | ||
| Non aligned conservatives | Con | 8 | - | 7 | - | ||
| Liberal | National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) | (NLP) | 80 | - | 81 | 4 | |
| Vincke Fraktion | (Vin) | 27 | 7 | 15 | - | ||
| Free Association (Freie Vereinigung) | (FV) | 14 | - | 13 | - | ||
| German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) | (DFP) | 19 | 7 | 29 | 6 | ||
| Non aligned Liberals | Lib | 11 | 4 | 9 | 1 | ||
| Bundesstaatlich-Konstitutionelle Vereinigung | (BKV) | 18 | - | 21 | 5 | ||
| Workers parties | Saxon People's Party (Sächsische Volkspartei) | (SVP) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Lasallean General German Workers' Association (Lasallean Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein) | (LADAV) | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||
| Minorities | Polish Party | 13 | - | 11 | |||
| Danish | 2 | - | 1 | - | |||
| Others | 5 | - | 4 | - | |||
| Total | 297 | 23 | 297 | 23 | |||
Reichstag of the German Empire
[edit]3 March, 1871: 1st Reichstag of the German Empire
[edit]The Reichstag election of 3 March, 1871 was the election of the members of the 1st Reichstag of the German Empire.
| Reichstag of the German Empire | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Constituency | Reichstag Deputy 1871 | Party |
| 1 | Zittau | Julius Pfeiffer | Lib |
| 2 | Löbau | Karl August Mosig von Aehrenfeld | (NLP) |
| 3 | Bautzen | Rudolf Thiel | (NLP) |
| 4 | Dresden New City | Friedrich Oskar von Schwarze | (LRP) |
| 5 | Dresden Old City | Franz Wigard | (DFP) |
| 6 | Dresden County | Karl Gustav Ackermann | (LRP) |
| 7 | Meissen | Karl Richard Hirschberg | (LRP) |
| 8 | Pirna | Arthur Eysoldt | (DFP) |
| 9 | Freiberg | Wilhelm Schaffrath | (DFP) |
| 10 | Döbeln | Wilhelm Oehmichen | (DFP) |
| 11 | Oschatz-Grimma | Theodor Günther | (LRP) |
| 12 | Leipzig City | Eduard Stephani | (NLP) |
| 13 | Leipzig County | Karl Birnbaum | (NLP) |
| 14 | Borna | Hermann Köchly | (DFP) |
| 15 | Mittweida | Karl Biedermann | (NLP) |
| 16 | Chemnitz | Richard Ludwig | (DFP) |
| 17 | Glauchau-Meerane | August Bebel | (SDAP) |
| 17 | Zwickau | Reinhold Schraps | (SDAP) |
| 19 | Stollberg-Schneeberg | Heinrich Minckwitz | (DFP) |
| 20 | Marienberg | Eduard Brockhaus | (NLP) |
| 21 | Annaberg | Carl Böhme | (DFP) |
| 22 | Auerbach | Otto Georgi | (NLP) |
| 23 | Plauen | Otto zu Münster-Langelage | (LRP) |
| Political parties in the 1871 German federal elections | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political orientation | Party | Seats Total 1871 |
Per cent | Seats Saxony Feb 1871 |
Per cent | ||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (Prussia) (Konservative Partei) | (KP) | 53 | 13.9% | 0 | - | |
| German Reich Party (Deutsche Reichspartei) | (DRP) | 39 | 10.2% | 0 | - | ||
| Other conservative | Con | 3 | n/a | 0 | - | ||
| Liberal | Right-Liberal | Imperial Liberal Party (Liberale Reichspartei) | (LRP) | 30 | 7.9% | 5 | 21.7% |
| National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) | (NLP) | 119 | 31.1% | 7 | 30.4% | ||
| Other liberal | Lib | 6 | 1.6% | 1 | 4.3% | ||
| Left-Liberal | German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) | (DFP) | 45 | 11.8% | 8 | 34.8% | |
| German People's Party (1868) (Deutsche Volkspartei) | (DtVP) | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | - | ||
| Catholic | Centre Party (Germany) (Zentrum Partei) | (ZP) | 60 | 15.7% | 0 | - | |
| Socialist | Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands) | (SDAP) | 2 | 0.5% | 2 | 8.7% | |
| General German Workers' Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein) | (ADAV) | 0 | - | 0 | - | ||
| Regional parties Minorities |
German-Hanoverian Party (Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei) | (DHP) | 7 | 1.8% | 0 | - | |
| Polish Party | 14 | 3.7% | 0 | - | |||
| Danish | 1 | 0.3% | 0 | - | |||
| Others | 2 | 0.5% | 0 | - | |||
| Total | 297 | 100% | 23 | 100% | |||
References
[edit]- ^ Headlam, J. W. "Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by J. W. Headlam". www.heritage-history.com. Heritage History. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ J. W., Headlam. "Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by J. W. Headlam". www.heritage-history.com. Heritage History. Retrieved 19 August 2020.